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PC Parts Whaaaat?

I bought a cheap 4tb nvme. As soon as it heated up it was way slower than my old SSDs. It didn't take much work to make it heat up. I expected it would slow down but I didn't expect it to slow down to a crawl.
 
I thought it would be OK as a non system disk to store stuff I didn't access much. It's not much use if it takes forever to put the stuff on there. The specs for it were OK for occasional low demand. What I didn't realise was just how much it slowed down when it heated up, nor how quickly it would heat up.
 
Over the years I've transitioned my SSDs as I've got new ones of larger capacity; so I've now got 4, 2 hanging of SATA connectors and two in the MB's built in NVME slots. The oldest - a massive 250GB - is about 10 years old now and it was my system drive for many of those 10 years. The other SATA SDD is I think 5 years old, and a 500GB and that was also a system drive for about 3 years. Because I'd ran out of connectors - used to have something called an optical drive (youngsters will have to look that up - they were something like a clay tablet crossed with an abacus) I then got a NVME 500GB a few years back, and then finally a 1TB NVMe which is my current one that is also my main system disk.

I've occasionally used something like Crystaldisk to see if anything looks untoward with my drives. And everything is "good", do I need to do anything else?
 
I haven't used Crystaldisk but the manufacturers have their own utilities. They all self monitor so it's just a matter of checking how the right cycles are going and checking if there are firmware updates. It's also not a good idea to run them at full capacity. The better they can share the write cycles around the better. For most of us I would guess that they will last for many years. The people doing a lot movie processing would work them harder.
 
Another random thought. NVME was simple with the smaller sizes. The circuits were less dense and complex but the C drive could run out of space easily, especially when processing large audio, video and photos. It was only when I started exploring the large capacity NVME drives that I ran into trouble.
 
I picked up a more traditional SDD just in case. I don't really do anything that requires blazing fast speed on super-memory so if the fancy new style one burns out it won't hurt much to just use this one instead.
 
a_unique_person said:
I opened up an old style SSD once just to see what was in it. They are now 99% empty space and just have the same chips the NVME chips have in them.
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I like the old style SSD. I have this six port docking station. I make clone back-ups so I don't have to worry about doing restore operations. I swap out the operating system drive from time to time so as to reduce wear and tear on any one drive..
I experimented with a couple of NVMe's for a while, but they are a pain to swap out.
 
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